Which Meta Tags would you recommend having on the pages?
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Hello,
There are so many different meta tags which you can implement to the header of your website and I'm wanting to get people's opinions on which you feel are worth putting in and which are completely pointless?
For example:
- Author
- Copyright
- Language
- Content-Type
- Content-Language
- Distribution
- Abstract
- Keywords
- Description
- Classification
- Canonical
- Expires
- Revisit-after
- Rating
I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions.
Kind Regards,
Shaun Swales
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language / location
canonical
description
robots
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